Everyone’s talking about: The Rest is Noise festival

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When Alex Ross, classical music critic of TheNew Yorker, wrote The
Rest is Noise, a survey of 20th-century classical music, he wanted it
“not to be a total embarrassment: some nice reviews and respectable sales”.
The book, first published in 2007, went on to become a bestseller on both
sides of the Atlantic and was unanimously acclaimed. Ross’s book interweaved
perceptive and accessible music analysis with the grand sweep of history —
and, in doing so, emphatically reminded us that the great modernist
composers were fully plugged into the world around them. The Rest is Noise
challenged classical fans